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  2. List of World Chess Championships - Wikipedia

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    Emanuel Lasker (left) facing incumbent champion Wilhelm Steinitz (right) in Philadelphia during the 1894 World Chess Championship The World Chess Championship has taken various forms over time, including both match and tournament play. While the concept of a world champion of chess had already existed for decades, with several events considered by some to have established the world's foremost ...

  3. Timeline of chess - Wikipedia

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    1879 – First New Zealand Chess Championship, the longest running national chess championship in the world. 1883 – Invention of Forsyth-Edwards Notation, a notation used to describe any possible chess position. 1884 – Morphy dies. 1886 – First official World Chess Championship match is held between Wilhelm Steinitz and Johannes Zukertort.

  4. List of world records in chess - Wikipedia

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    The longest game played in a world championship is the 6th game of the 2021 World Chess Championship between Magnus Carlsen and Ian Nepomniachtchi, which Carlsen won in 136 moves by resignation. The game lasted for 8 hours, 15 minutes and 40 seconds.

  5. World Chess Championship - Wikipedia

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    The two played three more subsequent championships in World Chess Championship 1986 (won by Kasparov, 12½–11½), World Chess Championship 1987 (drawn 12–12, Kasparov retained the title), and World Chess Championship 1990 (won by Kasparov, 12½–11½). In the five tournaments, Kasparov and Karpov played a total of 144 World Championship ...

  6. Category:World Chess Championships - Wikipedia

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    World Chess Championship 1889; World Chess Championship 1890–1891; World Chess Championship 1892; World Chess Championship 1894; World Chess Championship 1896–1897; World Chess Championship 1907; World Chess Championship 1908; World Chess Championship 1910 (Lasker–Schlechter) World Chess Championship 1910 (Lasker–Janowski) World Chess ...

  7. List of FIDE chess world number ones - Wikipedia

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    There were unofficial lists in 1964, 1969, 1970 and January 1971, as the Elo rating system was first introduced. [where?From 1971 to 1980, there was one main rating list published each year (for a total of 10), initially published in July from 1971 to 1973, then once in May (1974), before switching to annual publication in January from 1975 to 1980 (in this period, some supplements and ...

  8. Interregnum of World Chess Champions - Wikipedia

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    Following Alekhine's sudden death in 1946 while living in exile in Portugal, the title of World Chess Champion became vacant for the first time in its 60-year history. . There was no obvious means for a new player to succeed him, as the title had always been decided by matches organized between a challenger and the incumbent champion, and sponsored by willing pa

  9. List of chess grandmasters - Wikipedia

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    The following people have all been grandmasters (GM) of chess.The title is awarded to players who have met the standards required by the sport's governing body, FIDE.Other than world champion, it is the highest title a chess player can attain and is awarded for life, although FIDE regulations allow for the revocation of titles for cheating or fraud.